AMEND by inserting the following after line 18 and renumbering
subsequent section(s):

SECTION *. Of the
funds appropriated under the provisions of Sections 1 and 2, the Mississippi
Department of Archives & History shall transfer to the Department of
Finance and Administration whatever sums as are determined necessary by the
State Fiscal Officer, not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000.00), to pay and defray the expenses associated with providing access
to and the use of state agencies, employees, resources and materials by
individual members of the Mississippi Legislature and the public incurred in
their drafting of legislative redistricting proposals, whether for the purpose
of introducing legislation, amendments or proposed redistricting maps as an
alternative to any such legislation proposed or introduced by the Joint
Legislative Committee on Reapportionment.
It is the intention of the Legislature that any such amounts authorized
under this section shall be available for expenditure in the period beginning
upon passage and ending on June 30, 2003.